At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.